The applicants seeking to set up a methadone clinic that’s drawn fire from London’s Old South neighbourhood better attend Wednesday night’s public meeting on the proposal — and bring plenty of answers with them.

That’s the message from Coun. Denise Brown, in whose ward the Ontario Addiction Treatment Centres is seeking to set up an operation, pending approval from city politicians.

The chain runs clinics provincewide, and Brown is irked it hasn’t been more open with information for Londoners near the proposed site at 425 Wharncliffe Rd.

“I just don’t feel comfortable about them coming in and establishing anywhere in London,” Brown said, noting its representative’s answers at a recent public meeting were unsatisfying.

“They came to (that) meeting and their answers were so vague.”

Chief among her concerns: How many patients will the clinic treat daily, a number she says residents need to know.

Ontario Addiction Treatment Centres is the first applicant to seek to start a methadone clinic since council approved rules that limit where such facilities can be located, such as not within 300 metres of schools.

Its Wharncliffe proposal has riled many nearby residents, including in Old South. Brown said it’s unfair to paint those concerns as insensitive — noting there are already two other clinics within a couple of kilometres.

“This is not a neighbourhood that’s saying ‘Not in my backyard.’ This is a neighbourhood that’s saying ‘Not a third one in my backyard.’ To start putting methadone clinics as a cluster is not good planning.”